MANCHESTER — Mayor Ted Gatsas won a political vote of confidence of sorts Tuesday night when the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted overwhelmingly to reject subjecting Gatsas to an investigation by the city conduct board for his handling of a 2015 rape of a student at Manchester High School West.
By an 8-2 count, aldermen voted to place on file — the equivalent of tossing into the dumpster — the request for an investigation from longtime former Alderman Bill Cashin, who two years ago was campaign co-chairman for Gatsas’ political rival for mayor, Joyce Craig.
Cashin had asked that the conduct panel probe whether Gatsas violated the city charter by interfering with the operation of the police and school departments in their investigation of the 2015 rape of a female student in a hallway at West. | More…
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